Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumRotating cattle stores CO2, but what is the weight of a 'global average cow' to get final figure?
So if we rotate cattle in the Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing, aka, Managed Intensive Rotational Grazing (MIRG), a study by Paige says the average CO2 sequestered in pastures of AMP grazed cattle is 6.65 kilo's per kilo of carcass weight.
https://sciencetrends.com/a-holistic-approach-to-measuring-greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-grazing-management-systems-for-beef-production/
There are 998.3 million head of cattle in the world. (So close to a nice round billion!)
http://beef2live.com/story-world-cattle-inventory-ranking-countries-0-106905
So we need to multiply 998.3 by 6.65kg by average cattle weight. Anyone want to tell us what a WORLD average cattle weight would be? Then this figure is what world cattle alone could sequester, let alone all the other animals that AMP can graze to bring pastures back to life? I'm expecting this figure to be well below the total *pasturelands figure*, as there are many other animals we currently graze that can be grazed better via AMP / MIRG, sequestering even more CO2.
enid602
(8,605 posts)I call bullshit.
DBoon
(22,350 posts)Is this like cow tipping taken to an extreme?
Duppers
(28,117 posts)"Recent analysis by Goodland and Anhang finds that livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions."
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6294
NickB79
(19,233 posts)That's why we intensively farm corn and soy using fossil fuels and raise so many cattle in feedlots instead. You simply can't get enough calories per acre on pasture as you can with grains.
Look at it this way: we currently have 3X as many cattle in N. America today as bison at their pre-colonization peak.